I have a site on my current host. I can back it up succcessfully, and use FTP to point it to the new host. But once it's there, I cannot simply restore the file as it goes in to a subdirectory (understandably) - however the fact that the backup restores successfully confirms that the tar file was intact.

Is there any way I can do the following:

1. - Perform the backup, and FTP to some temporary site, where the backup file will then be available by FTP

2. - Create the new account in WHM

3. - Choose "Restore a Home directory" and instead of browsing for a local file, give it the URL.

Being a dial-up user, it is not practical for me to browse for a local, 300mb file.

Am I way off course here? Back in an earlier release of cPanel I once clicked on a backup file by mistake, and it overwrote my entire site - but it doesn't seem to work that way any more. (A good thing in some ways *grin*)

Originally posted by mccmikey I have a site on my current host. I can back it up succcessfully, and use FTP to point it to the new host. But once it's there, I cannot simply restore the file as it goes in to a subdirectory (understandably) - however the fact that the backup restores successfully confirms that the tar file was intact.

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You could untar the backup via the file manager in cpanel and copy the subdirectories within the backup to the appropriate locations.